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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jayjones tell D about pretty girls and eating?
(a) Pretty girls eat wings.
(b) Pretty girls don't like fries.
(c) Pretty girls eat sandwiches.
(d) Eating fish makes pretty girls even better looking.

2. Why are the narrator and Neeka jealous of D right off?
(a) Her coppery hair.
(b) Her large family.
(c) Her freedom to roam the city.
(d) Her clothes.

3. What effect does Tupac's imprisonment have on him?
(a) It makes him decide to change his life.
(b) It numbs him.
(c) It enrages him.
(d) It sends him into deep depression.

4. Why does Jayjones think black people have been falsely imprisoned?
(a) They are not given fair trials because the system is too overloaded.
(b) He does not know why.
(c) Racism.
(d) They can't afford good lawyers.

5. What does D say is the reason she came to the block where Neeka and the narrator are?
(a) It is no gang territory.
(b) That was as far as her money would take her on the bus.
(c) Her aunt lives there.
(d) The pretty trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does D learn that the court system has done?

2. What does D vow after hearing the counselor?

3. What school does Jayjones attend?

4. How do the narrator and Neeka know each other?

5. What do the three girls have with the jump rope?

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